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Queer and trans African mobilities : migration, asylum and diaspora / [edited by] B Camminga and John Marnell

Camminga, B. [Herausgeberin/-geber] ; Marnell, John, ca. 20./21. Jh. [Herausgeberin/-geber]

London ; New York : Zed, 2022

x, 247 Seiten : Illustrationen

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

2206

Erscheint auch als: Queer and trans African mobilities. - New York : Zed, 2022 (Online-Ausgabe)

978-0-7556-3898-7 (hardback); 978-0-7556-3899-4 (paperback)

978-0-7556-3900-7 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff); 978-0-7556-3901-4 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2021056547

OCoLC: 1322015736     

HQ73.3.A35

306.76096     Ähnliche Literatur

FIV Notation: RE: Afrika (insgesamt) ; SG02.04: Gesellschaft / Gesellschaftsentwicklung/Gesellschaftsstruktur / Migration ; SG02.06: Gesellschaft / Gesellschaftsentwicklung/Gesellschaftsstruktur / Geschlechterbeziehungen/Lebensgemeinschaften ; SF01.02: Staat / Politisches System/Verfassung / Menschenrechte

GND-Schlagwörter: Afrika ; Homosexualität ; Internationale Migration ; Minderheitenrecht ; Auswanderer ; Auswanderung ; Flüchtling ; Asylbewerber

FIV-Themen: Afrika ; LGBTIQ ; Homosexuelle/Homosexualität ; Internationale Migration ; Durchgangsmigration ; Minderheitenschutz ; Auswanderung/Auswanderer ; Flüchtlinge ; Asylsuchende

FIV-Aspekte: Homophobie ; Lebensbedingungen ; Gewalttätigkeit ; Fallstudie ; Länderbezogene Beiträge ; Südafrikanische Republik ; Mosambik ; Marokko ; Kenia ; Türkei ; Frankreich ; Netzwerk (institutionell/sozial)

LOC-SH: Sexual minorities -- Africa -- Social conditions ; Sexual minorities -- Legal status, laws, etc -- Africa ; Sexual minority immigrants -- Social conditions ; Africa -- Emigration and immigration

Introduction. Framing African Queer and Trans Mobilities: Absences, Presences and Challenges -- Labyrinthine Wanderings: Queering Mobility in Impossible Geographies / Yara Ahmed -- Telling a Different Story: On the Politics of Representing African LGBTQ Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers / John Marnell -- Along the Pink Corridor: Histories of Queer Mobility Between Maputo and Johannesburg (Ca. 1900-2020) / Caio Simões de Araújo -- An Ethical Dilemma: When Research becomes 'Expert Testimony'/ Agathe Menetrier -- 'Sheep in a Pen': How the Externalisation of EU Borders Impacts the Lives of Gay Refugees in Morocco / Marien Gouyon -- Homophobia as Public Violence: Politics, Religion, Identity and Rights in the Lives of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Asylum Seekers from Cameroon / Charlotte Walker-Said -- 'Where is Home?' Negotiating Comm(unity) and Un/Belonging Among Queer African Migrants on Facebook / Godfried Asante -- What is Private about 'Private Parts'? On Navigating the Violence of the Digital African Trans Refugee Archive / B Camminga -- Ties that Matter: Queer Ways of Surviving a Transit Country / Gonca Şahin -- 'Kindness is a Distant and Elusive Reality': Charting the Impacts of Discrimination on the Mental and Sexual Wellbeing of LGBT Refugee Youth in Kenya / Emanuel Munyarukumbuzi, Margaret Jjuuko and James Maingi Gathatwa -- Differential Movements: Lesbian Migrant Women's Encounters with, and Negotiations of, South Africa's Border Regime / Verena Hucke -- Debunking the Liberation Narrative: Rethinking Queer Migration and Asylum to France / Florent Chossière.

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"Recent years have seen increased scholarly and media interest in the movement of LGBTIQ persons, particularly those seeking protection in Europe and North America. While this has helped focus attention on the plight of individuals facing persecution, it has also reinvigorated racist tropes about sexual or gender rights in the Global South. In the case of Africa, the existence of anti-LGBTIQ laws and the prevalence of hetero-patriarchal discourses are regularly cited as evidence of the continent's inescapable savagery. Colonial notions of an uncivilised continent in need of salvation have been repackaged and repurposed for the twenty-first century, with LGBTIQ migrants serving as the ultimate case in point"--